Archive for the ‘ politics ’ Category
I’ve been reading and enjoying a bit of Paul Feyerabend lately, so I was interested to hear that there was a recent controversy involving this anarchic thinker and our peculiar current pope Ratzinger, or Benedict, or whatever. How could this be? Well, it’s not difficult to see where the difficulty might arise. Although Feyerabend is [ READ MORE ]
as prelude to a future and more in-depth analysis of dogmatic thought in general, I thought I might link to a particularly lovely editorial from the Washington Post which offers the best conceivable summary of the real difference between the thought-processes of ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ in the United States, with direct reference to the upcoming [ READ MORE ]
“Works of art are received and valued on different planes. Two polar types stand out:: with one, the accent is on the cult value; with the other, on the exhibition value of the work. . . With the different methods of technical reproduction of a work of art, its fitness for exhibition increased to such [ READ MORE ]
The simple answer to Martha Rosler’s question of “which political battles have been fought and won by someone for someone else” (307) is every one. That is to say, in the political sphere, there is no individual action. This is a structural necessity, insofar as the ‘political sphere’ is the realm of the polis, not [ READ MORE ]